How to pronounce “halftone”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (music) Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
• (printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
• (art) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
• [Verb]
• To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

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